Spoiler alert! Leaving aside, for a moment, a discussion about the scarcity of pro-Western narratives in movies these days…
I see several problems with this entire premise. To begin with, there’s probably going to be very little that’s uplifting in our fight against Islam (if we ever get it underway, that is…) In WW2, we didn’t allow millions of Nazis into our domain before and during the war, and we certainly didn’t condone the continuing unimpeded indoctrination by Nazis in their tiny local bunds once war was underway. Compare that to the fact that Muslims began waging active Jihad against us decades ago, yet during that same interim, millions of Muslims were welcomed to reside here. They are actively, openly, and brazenly waging Jihad against us as I write these words, and they are doing so against every stratum of our social, legal, and political infrastructure to subvert our side and elevate and insinuate Islam.
Next, the premise that Islam’s assault against the West bears any resemblance to the Nazi onslaught in Europe is wrong. Their Jihad is a very different affair. Also, the Muslims have proven expert at exploiting our post-modern confusion over our own self-identity, and have parasitized all of the hot button levers of manipulations we’ve devised to keep us divided, confused, and on the defensive. We haven’t even named Islam as our enemy, meanwhile the Muslims make steady inroads against us. The Islamic war-making aparatus is not so much about Panzer tanks and dive-bombers, it isn’t even so much about spectacular hijackings and mass slaughter — their most effective weapons against us are steady patient subversion, infiltration on all levels of society, demographic expansion, and death by a million little cuts.
It’s almost impossible to make our side aware of the pervasive gains the Muslims are making against us without severely vilifying them and developing a revulsion for all things Islamic — yet after endless beheadings, endless brutalities and atrocities visited upon our heads, we seem more eager than ever to imagine that Muslims can be our friends, that their hearts and minds a “winnable”, or that there can ever be “a good guy Pakistani scientist who holds the keys to their nukes and protects civilization by keeping them close and out of the hands of the Islamist madmen.”
This is a far more complicated war than anything we faced in WW2, or ever before in history for that matter.
And we’ve made it nearly impossible for “our side” to effectively vilify and dehumanize our enemy to the degree necessary to mount an effective and victorious war against him. That was not the case in WW2.
A last distinction to be made — our enemy suffers under no similar restriction on his capacity to dehumanize, hate and vilify us. He does it every day. In fact, he’s invented a religion around the very notion of dehumanizing, and then annihilating the object of his hatred. It’s called Islam.
